Gupta is an Erik Jonsson Chaired Professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas.[2] He also serves as a director of UT Dallas' Quality of Life Technology Labs along with Lakshman Tamil and Mehrdad Nourani.[3] He is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Interoperate.biz, Inc.[4][5] He is also the co-founder and co-coordinator of COMPULOG AMERICAS, a network of research groups in the Western Hemisphere engaged in research on computational logic.[6]
He has been active in research for over 25 years, mainly in the field of programming languages, software engineering, parallel and distributed processing and assistive technology. His work has resulted in over 40 journal articles and 108 conference and workshop papers.[7]